Lexicon
גֹּ֫רֶן
go.ren
H1637
H:N-F Hebrew

threshing floor

37
Occurrences
17
Books
Hebrew
Language

go.ren is a grain-working place, also named as a setting for gatherings, purchases, mourning, and altar building.

The word consistently denotes a grain-working place: a site for winnowing, gathering grain, and produce, which can also be identified by an owner or place-name and serve as the setting for mourning, public activity, purchases, and altar building. The same concrete setting supplies imagery of chaff, treading, and gathered sheaves in Hosea 13:3, Jeremiah 51:33, and Micah 4:12.

Senses in use

  1. Grain-working site and named location · dominant

    The noun identifies the place where grain-related activity and its produce are in view: in Ruth 3:2 the APB renders Boaz as winnowing barley there, and in Joel 2:24 it renders such places as full of grain. It also marks a specified location for events, as in Genesis 50:10, where mourning occurs at Atad, and in 2 Samuel 24:21, where David seeks to purchase the place for an altar; figurative clauses likewise picture chaff driven from it, a place being trodden, and sheaves gathered to it.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the term as “threshing floor,” including agricultural scenes, named locations, and figurative comparisons. Its wording confirms the setting of each clause rather than establishing a separate English equivalent for every occurrence.

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